When I first got to Thailand back in the last century, I was advised by an old hand that when I wanted to settle down I should do the following.
He said, " Go up country. Take a bus out to the end of line. Take a van out to where the paved road ends. Take a motorcycle taxi out as far as he'll go. Then take a pair of flip flops, tie them together and hang around your neck and start walking. Consider marrying the first girl who asks you, "What's that you got hanging around your neck?"
So I tried that. It worked! She's 25 years younger than I am and is happily looking towards taking care of me when I'm super old.
So just the other day I was telling this story to our children. They busted out laughing.
When I asked what was so funny they said,"Mom tells the same story, but in her version, she was home from her job in Bangkok and saw a middle age overweight forang walking down a paddy dike with a pair of flip flops hanging around his neck.
She asked you why you had flip flops hanging around your neck.
Because most of the forangs did it with high heels.